MONARCH paddle steam tug 1833

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MONARCH paddle steam tug 1833

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Jan 17, 2021 8:30 pm

I found the following website where the details and history are given on the bow tug which was towing HMS TEMERAIRE to the breaker's yard.

Built by Edward Robson, South Shields. Wooden Paddle Tug, clench built. L64'10''. B13'11''. D7'5''. (some sources 4'6''). 88grt. 34nrt. . 20nhp 1cyl steam engine with flue boiler and jet condenser by H S Wait, North Shields. Fitted with Galloway's patent paddle wheels. Coal cap. 7 tons. Acquired in 1833. Disposed 1876. Scrapped 1876. ON15862 Callsign LVCK

1833 Delivered to Benjamin Thompson & Robert Stoker, Yarmouth. 1834 Acquired by John Rogers Watkins & William L. Ogilby, London. 13-11-1835 Nathaniel William Green, Master, was committed to Newgate Prison after the tug ran down a small boat off Blackwall, drowning a 16-year-old boy. Green's trial for manslaughter did not take place until 1840. 18-9-1838 Arrived at Beatsons Yard, Rotherhithe towing HMS TEMERAIRE for scrapping. 1840 Transferred to William Watkins. 1841 Transferred to John R. Watkins, London. 1843 Returned to William Watkins, London.1845 New 20psi tubular boiler. 19-9-1848 Damaged in collision with steamer WATERMAN No 3 off Wapping. 1856 Engine, boiler and hull overhaul, patent paddles fitted. 26-4-1860 William Watkins summonsed because the tug had been emitting excessive smoke off Wapping. The £5 fine imposed would not be enforced if Clarke's patent smoke prevention apparatus was fitted to the vessel. 1861 Reboilered and hull repairs. 29-10-1863 Towing sailing vessel BENLIDA out of St Katherines Dock when the tow suddenly fell onto its beam ends in a sudden squall due to lack of ballast and later sank off Wapping Old Stairs.1876 Sold for scrap for £40 to John Stewart, Blackwall.

Watkins first tug. The tug features in Turner's painting "The Fighting TEMERAIRE ", although apparently not a very good likeness. With the £40 scrap money, Mrs. Watkins bought a silver tea and coffee service, "to remember her by"

http://thamestugs.co.uk/LORD-WARDEN---NAPIA.php
1981 Grenada Grenadines 1981 10c sg 426, scott?
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1981 The-fighting-temeraire-by-JMW-Turner.jpg

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